Born in 1881, Victor Klemperer studied in Munich, Geneva and Paris. He was a journalist in Berlin, taught at the University of Naples and received a DSM during WWI as a volunteer in the German army. He was subsequently a professor of romance languages at the Dresden Technical College until he was dismissed as a consequence of Nazi laws in 1935. He survived the Holocaust and the war and taught again as an academic until his death in 1960.
À partir de 1933, le philologue allemand Victor Klemperer tient un journal dans lequel il consigne toutes les manipulations du IIIe Reich sur la langue et la culture de son pays. Offrant un décryptage inédit de la novlangue nazie qu’il baptise LTI : Lingua Tertii Imperii, ses notes...
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